Ep. 206: “Heart on a Chip” Featuring Dr. Christine Mummery - podcast episode cover

Ep. 206: “Heart on a Chip” Featuring Dr. Christine Mummery

Nov 16, 20211 hr 20 min
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Dr. Christine Mummery is a Professor of Developmental Biology at the Leiden University Medical Center and the former President of the International Society for Stem Cell Research. She pioneered studies on cardiomyocytes from human embryonic stem cells and was among the first to inject them in mouse hearts after myocardial infarction. She talks about her recent research developing multi-lineage cardiac model systems like microtissues and organ-chips.
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